Book Notes.
Shofar, September, 2004
American Jewish Life
The Body of Brooklyn, by David Lazar. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003. 163 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-87745-845-6.
These essays offer a recollection of the author's Brooklyn upbringing in the 1960s and 1970s. His immigrant Jewish heritage and his bodily history form the core of the book.
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Andrea Most. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 253 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-01165-1.
In the period between 1925 and 1951, a time of depression, war, and social upheaval, Jewish musical theater writers imagined an optimistic, meritocratic, selectively inclusive America fashioned through song and dance. The works of these composers, librettists, and performers...
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